In this hands-on course students will investigate and experiment with architectural space in its most archaic form. By weaving shapes, relations, proportions, and light, architecture can elevate new spatial experiences and phenomena, which is the theoretical foundation this course is built upon. In this context working with physical models has proved to be one of the most fundamental methods to produce, assess and refine space %E2%80" especially in our increasingly digitalised world. This course is a testing field for experimenting with space and the methods to evaluate it. Spatial Narratives %E2%80" From Text to SpaceAs a trigger we will use text passages from canonical German novels and their hints and insinuations of spatial poetry within. We will interpret them, and carve out their inscribed spatial narratives and subtexts and transform them into models. The texts will therefore serve as vehicles, which allow us to translate textual atmospheres and phenomena into architectural space. Moreover this process will further strengthen and train the students%E2%80%99 ability for abstraction, interpretation and reinterpretation. The language in the texts is seen as a generator that triggers the spatial experiments and phenomenological tests throughout the course. Go Big - Models and DrawingsBy intensively using large scale caster models and over-sized charcoal drawings, the course seeks to familiarise the participants with the capacity to meaningfully evaluate the models and carve out the relevance of shapes, relations, proportions and light. On the basis of handcrafted plaster models and charcoal drawings, students will learn to both experiment with spatial ideas and meaningfully use the architectural model in this process. The course features an array of thematically aligned lectures, such as technical inputs on building molds, as well as theoretical lectures on phenomenological approaches in architecture with examples and case studies. In Addition to this we will visit particularly shaped landscapes and environments as a visual and thematic inspiration.As the final event the group will organize an exhibition with all the models and drawings produced throughout the course.

Course leader
Mag. arch. Lukas Staudinger MA & Dipl.-Ing. Mathias Klpfel, Architekt

Target group
This course addresses students from fields such as architecture, design and the arts. However, it also welcomes everyone who is interested in the discourse on architectural space and who seeks to experimentally gain further understanding of space.The course language in English. That is why good English language skills are required.

Fee info
EUR 600: 2 weeks | 90 hrs The course fee is 600 EURThe course fee includes: application fee (150 EUR) course according to description working materials Summer School ID card internet access at the Bauhaus-Universitt Weimarfree use of the libraryaccompanying programme (except excursions)free entrance to museums belonging to Klassik Stiftung Weimar EUR 450: For students and alumni the course fee is 450 EUR.

Bauhaus-Universit%C3%A4t Weimar
Address: Architecture/Media/Art/Design/Engineering, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 15
Postal code: 99423
City: Weimar
Country: Germany
Website: http://www.uni-weimar.de/summerschool/
E-mail: summerschool@uni-weimar.de
Phone: +49(0)3643/582359